From Ion Fluxes in Living Cells to Metabolic Power Considerations

Abstract

Recently, the role of thermal resonance has been highlighted in living cells. As a consequence of this approach, the electrochemical potential was obtained in a partial differential equation concerning the cell membrane depth and its external temperature surface. In this paper, this last equation is studied and its solution’s consequences are discussed concerning the cells’ ion fluxes and their related entropy variation and power generation. Moreover, the metabolic power of the whole body is evaluated by using these previous numerical results.

Keywords

• transport in living cells
• cancer
• membrane electrochemical potential